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Ed Duarte
How do I change my password at startup?
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Expert
You don't change your password at start-up but you do change it when you
are logged in and using User Account in control panel.
Log on to your system, Go to Start, Control Panel, User Accounts, User
Account Panel [again], now select change password.
hth
are logged in and using User Account in control panel.
Log on to your system, Go to Start, Control Panel, User Accounts, User
Account Panel [again], now select change password.
hth
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Shenan Stanley
Ed said:
If read into your message one way - you mean the password you logon to
Windows XP with.
What version of Windows XP? Home, Professional, other?
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...l/proddocs/en-us/windows_password_change.mspx
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/tipstricks/ht/chgpassxp.htm
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Tim Meddick
You provide so little information....
But, a word of warning -
If you are running XP Professional, and have and use ENCRYPTION on any files (when
they show-up as "green" in Explorer) - changing your password makes all your
encrypted files INACCESSIBLE with not much chance of recovery....
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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.
But, a word of warning -
If you are running XP Professional, and have and use ENCRYPTION on any files (when
they show-up as "green" in Explorer) - changing your password makes all your
encrypted files INACCESSIBLE with not much chance of recovery....
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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.
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BillW50
In Tim Meddick typed on Sat, 8 Aug 2009 23:45:20 +0100:
Is this true of those update uninstall folders in the Windows folder
too? Those are just compressed, not encrypted right?
Is this true of those update uninstall folders in the Windows folder
too? Those are just compressed, not encrypted right?
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Tim Meddick
Bill,
You are absolutely right - compressed - not encrypted.
In point of fact - Window's will not permit the encryption of files in the Windows
directory, or files that it classes as Operating System files...
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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.
You are absolutely right - compressed - not encrypted.
In point of fact - Window's will not permit the encryption of files in the Windows
directory, or files that it classes as Operating System files...
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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.
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Shenan Stanley
Ed said:
Tim said:
Default colors:
Blue: Compressed.
Green: Encrypted.
Not everyone's $NT folders/containing files are compressed. Unless they do
it themselves (or someone with that right does it on the computer) - they
are not encrypted.
You can change your password yourself (logged in as the user and doing it
properly for your own account) and not mess up your access to your encrypted
files. However - if you the password is changed by another system
administrator or hacked some other way - without the proper backups of the
certificates and private keys, yes - all is basically lost. :-/
Best practices for the Encrypting File System
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223316
And for the OP, again, but with just as much assumption involved as anything
else...
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...l/proddocs/en-us/windows_password_change.mspx
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/tipstricks/ht/chgpassxp.htm
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Tim Meddick
Shenan,
changing the current user's password from within their own profile will
not prevent the encryption keys from being changed and thereby loose access to any
encrypted files that user has.
The way your post read gave the impression that's all they had to do to preserve
access to their encrypted files.
I had the unfortunate experience of finding out the hard way, I changed my password
(I was an administrator-level account) from within the 'User Accounts' control panel
and subsequently all my encrypted files were "Access Denied"....
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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.
changing the current user's password from within their own profile will
not prevent the encryption keys from being changed and thereby loose access to any
encrypted files that user has.
The way your post read gave the impression that's all they had to do to preserve
access to their encrypted files.
I had the unfortunate experience of finding out the hard way, I changed my password
(I was an administrator-level account) from within the 'User Accounts' control panel
and subsequently all my encrypted files were "Access Denied"....
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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.
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Shenan Stanley
Ed said:
Tim said:
Shenan said:
Tim said:
The Encrypting File System
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc700811.aspx
"For Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 local accounts, a password reset
disk can be used to safely reset a user's password. (Domain passwords cannot
be reset using the disk.) If an administrator uses the "reset password"
option from the user's account in the Computer Management console users
container, EFS files won't be accessible. If users change the password back
to the previous password, they can regain access to encrypted files."
I haven't worked with EFS in a while, so you may be correct - but I recall
that if a user logs in as themself and then changes their own password
(workgroup environment, not domain - that complicates things) they will not
lose asccess to their own encrypted files. Although, again, I should point
out they would be unwise if the do not follow the Best Practices I linked to
previously.
EFS, Credentials, and Private Keys from Certificates Are Unavailable After a
Password Is Reset
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290260
*Note: "This issue can occur if the password was forcefully reset by an
administrator or owner, instead of being changed by the user."
So are you saying you changed your password using these steps (not in a
domain):
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...l/proddocs/en-us/windows_password_change.mspx
and you lost access to your encrypted files?
Or are you saying you reset another user's account (another user on the
computer) password and that user account subsequently lost access to their
encrypted files (as would be expected and pointed out in many documents -
including the message you get when resetting a users password in that
manner0?
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Tim Meddick
Mine was the only user account on the system - administrator-level.
I changed my own password in "User Accounts" (incidentally, I changed the password
but entered the same password to change it to - I don't know what I was thinking. So
the option to regain access by resetting the password back to the original would not
have worked!).
On subsequent reboot, I got "Access Denied".
BTW - I had backed up my encryption keys but, after doing loads of online research -
couldn't work what to do with it, so gave up on the lost data.
What I couldn't work out was if I could regain access to my files using just the
backed-up keys, but got the impression from what I read, that I needed to have made
myself the "Recovery Agent" beforehand (???)
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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.
I changed my own password in "User Accounts" (incidentally, I changed the password
but entered the same password to change it to - I don't know what I was thinking. So
the option to regain access by resetting the password back to the original would not
have worked!).
On subsequent reboot, I got "Access Denied".
BTW - I had backed up my encryption keys but, after doing loads of online research -
couldn't work what to do with it, so gave up on the lost data.
What I couldn't work out was if I could regain access to my files using just the
backed-up keys, but got the impression from what I read, that I needed to have made
myself the "Recovery Agent" beforehand (???)
==
Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.